tag: Synopsys

Experts At The Table: Performance Analysis
By Ed Sperling - 21 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down with Ravi Kalyanaraman, senior verification manager for the digital entertainment business unit at Marvell; William Orme, strategic marketing manager for ARM’s System IP and Processor Division; Steve Brown, product marketing and business development director for the systems and software group at Cadence; Johannes Stahl director o... » read more

The Week In Review: June 21
By Ed Sperling - 21 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Mentor Graphics rolled out emulation-ready verification IP for MIPI camera and display-based protocols. The VIP enables stimuli generated by UVM and SystemC-based environments and applies them to a design under test (DUT) running in the emulator. Synopsys introduced a tool for implementing and verifying functional engineering change orders, including matching, visualization ... » read more

Merchant Photomask Makers Remain Relevant
By Jeff Chappell - 20 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Jeff Chappell For many years the trend in the semiconductor industry with regard to photomasks and chipmakers was to shed captive mask operations in favor of merchant photomask suppliers. This reflected a larger trend all along the supply chain with many companies moving away from vertical integration as, consequently, the foundry model grew. "This was mainly driven by cost consideratio... » read more

Experts At The Table: Changes In The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 20 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Seow Yin Lim, group director for marketing at Cadence; Kevin Kranen, director of strategic alliances at Synopsys, and Tom Quan, director at TSMC. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: What’s changing in the ecosystem and ho... » read more

Manufacturing Ecosystem Challenges
By Ed Sperling - 19 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

What are the challenges facing semiconductor manufacturers and designers at the leading edge of Moore's Law? Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design asked Kevin Kranen of Synopsys, Seow Yin Lim of Cadence, Michael Buehler-Garcia of Mentor Graphics and Tom Quan of TSMC. [youtube vid=d6-zMJSxnpg] » read more

Drowning In Data
By Ed Sperling - 13 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The old adage, “Be careful what you wish for,” has hit the SoC design market like a 100-year storm. After years of demanding more data to understand what’s going on in a design, engineering teams now have so much data that they’re drowning in it. This is most obvious at advanced process nodes, of course. But it’s also true these days at more mainstream nodes such as... » read more

Apple’s Big Breakthrough
By Synopsys - 13 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Cary Chin For literally years now, we’ve talked about and measured energy consumption as smartphones have morphed from primarily communications devices (voice), to the world’s most widespread computing platform, and back again to a communications focus. But this time it’s data communications, and voice calls are just a small subset. Smartphones themselves, once the defining standar... » read more

The Week In Review: June 7
By Ed Sperling - 07 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For all the hesitation about moving the Design Automation Conference to Austin, it turns out that Austin has a lot of hardware engineers. In fact they flooded into the conference, turning it into one of the most successful in recent years and setting new records in multiple areas. Even Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up to see what all the fuss was about. Mentor Graphics added c... » read more

Experts At The Table: The Growing Signoff Headache
By Ed Sperling - 07 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss signoff issues with Rob Aitken, an ARM fellow; Sumbal Rafiq, director of engineering at Applied Micro; Ruben Molina, product marketing director for timing signoff at Cadence; Carey Robertson, director of product marketing for Calibre extraction at Mentor Graphics; and Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design ... » read more

Tech Talk: FinFETs, FD-SOI And The Future Of SoC Design
By Ed Sperling - 04 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

Mary Ann White, marketing manager for Synopsys' Galaxy Implementation Platform, talks with Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering about new opportunities to reduce power and improve performance, and where the pain points will be. [youtube vid=kuJdcHIRxfU] » read more

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